Got to know more about the Whale Belly Dark Restaurant where diners eat in complete darkness. Read on.

Placing our hands on each other's shoulders, the test subjects enter the restaurant like a blind conga-line with our waiter in night-vision goggles leading the way ...

Subject A: I'm scared. I didn't know that I was afraid of the dark!
Subject B: Ow! You'd think they would make the pathways wider in a place like this.
Subject C: Stop gripping me so hard, girl!
A: I can't do this. I feel so claustrophobic. My heart is beating too fast. I can't breathe. I can't do this.
Subject D: This Mozart's kind of nice.
A: I can't do this!

The test subjects gingerly feel their way around the seats with the help of the waiter and cautiously place buttock to chair. The subjects proceed to order the RMB 138 set meal for one, and RMB 214 lover's set meal for two.

B: Do you have your eyes open or shut?
C, D: Open.
A: Shut! Can I order a beer please?
B: Why are we all shouting?
C: I guess we are trying to compensate for loss of vision. Hey, I found my fork.
B: Yeah and here are my chopsticks and my spoon.

The first course arrives. It's soup.

A: I'm too nervous, I keep missing my mouth.
B: Woops! Just tried to use my fork!
D: This soup tastes like salt water with a few mushrooms thrown in. I have a bad feeling about the rest of the meal.

"A" ignores the soup and drinks most of her beer.

A: I feel better. I think I'm used to the dark now. I like it when the waiter comes over and I can see the two red dots from his goggles. Fuwuyuan!

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